(genus vaccinium.) The popular name of a shrub of several species, and bearing fruit resembling the whortle berry.
·noun The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit. II. Bil...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
N. The hortleberry, or whortleberry, in other parts. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose